performance
55 mins stage version | 25 mins loop site-specific version

teaser stage version
https://vimeo.com/746351238


credits
conception, dramaturgy, direction and lighting / Maria Luigia Gioffrè
dramaturgical collaboration / Angelo De Matteis
performers / Anna L. Autiero, Maria de Stefano, Chiara Serafini, Benedetta Rustici
sound design/ Beatrice Zanin, Davide Vizio
styling costumes / Salvatore De Pascalis
lighting for site-specific version / Studio Clichè 

photo credits/ Ersilia Tarullo

production
Armonie d’Arte Festival
coproduction
Primavera dei Teatri

research residency 
residenze KRAKK / Santarcangelo Festival

shows
Armonie d’Arte Festival (August 2022, Soverato, IT - stage version)
Primavera dei Teatri (October 2022, Castrovillari, IT - site specific version)
Casa del Cinema di Roma (October 2022, Rome, IT - site specific version)

Originally conceived as a single one, the Parca was the deity who presided over childbirth. The mythological figure then transforms into a triad, both in greek and latin culture, to govern the last three months before the term of pregnancy. The relationship between the Fates (greek: Moire) with the fate of the living also due to the greek influence. In literature, they
become those who regulate the course of life: Clotho wraps the thread (the begin of life), Lachesis weaves it (the duration), Atropos cuts it at the moment of death (the end).
The work leads to open up a choral drama in which the youth and the elderly age fade one another, transfiguring mothers into daughters and daughters into mothers. Parcae drives the viewer into a laboratory where birth, duration and death unfold themselves through the space composed by the performers who simultaneously become nurses, witches, fairies and mothers of timing. With reference to the latin myth of the Parcae and the greek one of Moire, the performance explores the countless
archetypes of the feminine crossing the myth of the three women, reframing the story through transdisciplinary means, from literature to visual arts, installation, cinematographic gaze, performance an dance- theatre.

The research has been realised with the contribution of Maria De Stefano, mentor of textile crafting (Centro Ricerca Arte Tessile, Soverato, Calabria, Italy), with whom - starting researching on gestures that underlie the act of loom weaving - we worked on the first choreographic study for the realization of Parcae, presented under the name of “Testo” (lat. sewing) in residency at Santarcangelo dei Teatri, Santarcangelo Festival, in March 2022.